TorrentFreak reports that lawyers for CD Projekt are contacting individual file-sharers in Germany offering to settle accusations of pirating The Witcher 2 for Ä911.80 ($1,183.06). For corroboration, they point to this German page which does mention the game and that figure. Thanks Lance via Techdirt, where they note the danger such a "shakedown" can target innocent parties.

eRe4s3r wrote on Dec 15, 2011, 02:02:Wow, that is truly unreal.. i mean sure you get seized your driving license if you go 50km/h above the limit here (germany) (if its in a city or town) but a 10000$ fine? Seizure of the VEHICLE? What kind of punishment is that?

That is just way way too harsh a punishment for a petty offense

It was a stupid reactionary move for our inept provincial government to a sudden (and temporary) rise in deaths that were attributed to street racing a few years back. If you do 50 over the limit, you're considered to be "racing", even if it's just you doing it and they felt they had to "get tough on street racing" which is why they passed this stupid law. Of course, it hasn't done anything to deter idiots who race on public streets (at least not in Ottawa where I live) and you know, a real solution like subsidising one of the multiple proposals that were offered to build public tracks where these people could race safely off the streets were never considered. And this province just voted that idiot in again!